DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z September 9, 2009
Upper Great Lakes/Michigan: Residual smoke from fires in BC over the last week has become very faint and is only seen due to the high sun angles using GOES-EAST. An area of smoke can be seen ahead of frontal storms and cirrus debris from N WI across W Lake Superior clipping the eastern MN arrowhead into Ontario, then bends back Seward across the central lake toward the E UP of Michigan. A few smoke plumes/puffs from fires across the E UP, today, can be seen within this larger area of faint haze moving NW. A small pocket of this hazy with some thin smoke can be seen moving due west across from the neck of Ontario into E and central LP of MI...near the developing midlevel cumulus clouds. Upper Miss. River Valley: Residual smoke from fires in BC over the last week is also very faint and mixed with haze over SW MN, IA and along the Mississippi River in IL toward STL. This area is moving NW along the river into central IA before moving due N under influence from the frontal system tracking across S Manitoba/MN. Nevada/Utah/Arizona: Thin remnant smoke from the yesterday's output from the Station fire continues to drift NEward slowly over the S tip of NV (from the CA boarder to the UT/AZ boarder. The smoke is particularly concentrated along from Lake Meade NE to the UT/AZ boarder. Gallina More information on the areas of smoke described above as well as others can be found at the locations listed below. THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov